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Enllaços sobre les Hackney Flashers. La seva obra artística i la seva influència en creadors posteriors.
Hackney Flashers was a women’s arts collective active between 1974 and 1980. Most of the group were photographers and defined themselves as socialists and feminists
Pàgina de l'artista Jo Spence (1934-1992), una de les integrants de Hackney Flashers.
Artwork page for ‘The Highest Product of Capitalism (after John Heartfield)’, Jo Spence, 1979 on display at Tate Britain. This photograph shows Spence standing in front of a shop window holding a sign thatreads ‘I’ll Take (Almost) Any Work’. It makes direct reference to a work from 1932 by Dada artist and photomontage pioneer, John Heartfield. In Heartfield’s work a male figure wearing a sign declaring ‘Any work accepted’ stands in front of an image of a woman wearing an opulent wedding dress. Spence exchanges the male figure for her own figure opening up broader commentary on women’s position in ...
"I began (through Beyond the Family Album) to reverse the process of the way I had been constructed as a woman by deconstructing myself visually in an attempt to identify the process by which I had been 'put together'. I still feel that personal is political. There is no way I could have understood fully the political implications of trying to represent other people (however well intentioned) if I had not first of all begun to explore how I had built a view of myself through other people's representations of me." Jo Spence
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El Reina Sofía de Madrid també va fer una retrospectiva sobre el Hackney Flashers Collective. Resulta interessant perquè mostra part de l'obra exposada.
